With their new gearbox unit, Owuru unveil a stepless, fully automatic motor/gearbox unit delivering up to 150 Nm of torque and 1,000 W peak power. Here's what we thought of it on the trail.

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The GR Corolla gets some upgrades for 2025 On top of the option to equip it with an eight-speed automatic transmission, the new 2025 Toyota GR Corolla gets a whole round of upgrades, including a ...

With this type of transmission, the driver can manually shift gears or opt for automatic shifting. Either way, he or she does not need to use the clutch, which is operated by a hydraulic system.

The efficiency of a tooth-on-tooth geared transmission, with the smoothly variable gear ratios of a CVT – minus the belt friction and capable of going all the way down to a zero ratio without ...

Besides the torque converter unit, an automatic transmission also uses a planetary gear system, which consists of a central or sun gear, a set of planet gears, and an outer ring gear that ...

The LC 500h has a complex hybrid system that incorporates an Atkinson-cycle 3.5-liter V-6 with the standard Lexus/Toyota planetary-gear set hybrid system, as well as a 4-speed automatic transmission.

A modern automatic transmission uses one or more sets of epicyclic or planetary gears (consisting of a sun, planets, and a ring gear) to achieve many different (typically between two and ten) gear ...